APCNews
– November 8
2010 – Year XI
Issue 131 • From 25 Nov to 10 Dec, the Take Back The Tech!
Campaign
calls on women and men to take control of technology to protect the
right to freedom of expression and information. Since it began in 2006,
people in more than 30 countries have used the internet and other
technology to fight violence against women. This year more than sixty
new women's rights groups --winners of the Take Back the Tech!
Fund
-- will join the campaign. Grant winners include a group of young black
lesbians in South Africa who are documenting violence against lesbian
women and monitoring reported court cases. Hate crimes against lesbians
is a huge but almost invisible issue in South Africa. This is part of APC’s work towards
achieving
the third Millennium Development Goal on equality for women.
Find
out more about the Take Back the Tech! Fund winners from Argentina, Brazil, Congo, Mexico, South Africa
and seven other
countries.

KUALA LUMPUR (APC WNSP for APC)
- The
UN estimates that 95% of aggressive behaviour, harassment, abusive
language and degrading images in online spaces are aimed at women. As
more and more women go online using computers and mobile phones, many
are silenced through acts of violence, sexism and censorship. From
November 25 to December 10 Take
Back The Tech!
calls on women and men to take control of technology to protect the
right to freedom of expression and information. Join the movement and
get creative! More
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BUENOS AIRES (KAH for APCNews) -
After
Maria Rocha attended an APC Feminist Tech Exchange she set up a
Facebook profile for Primorosa Preciosura – her organisation's
“safe house” for people of diverse sexualities. She didn´t
really know what the benefits might be but wanted to try out some of
the skills she had learned at the workshop. Months later she was at
the United Nations in New York representing lesbian and trans women
from the heartland of Argentina's conservative Catholic North. More
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SARAWAK (Andrew Garton for
APCNews) --
On October 23 2007 the Headman of Penan Village in the remote
Malaysian state of Sarawak left his wife at a rest area in the forest
to check on his traps. He never returned. Two months later his
remains were found in a river. The Headman is the final episode in
the Sarawak Gone series, a micro-documentary project by Andrew
Garton. Sarawak Gone documents the gradual decimation of indigenous
life and culture and the struggle for land. The entire work is open
licensed -- which means that the materials gathered and produced are
returned to the communities who participated in the project and the
content is available for re-use, for free, for people who seek to
protect the native customary rights of some of the most marginalised
people in Malaysia. More
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